Mantega to Eliminate IOF Tax on Auto Loans, IstoE Says

(Corrects name of the magazine’s website reporting the
information in headline in first paragraph.)

May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brazilian Finance Minister Guido
Mantega will eliminate the so-called IOF tax on auto loans as
part of a package of measures he will announce today to help the
car industry, Guilherme Barros, a columnist at Sao Paulo-based
IstoE Dinheiro said on the magazine’s website, without saying
how he obtained the information.

Mantega is scheduled to speak to reporters at 6pm Brasilia
time today.